Iryna Shuvalova

IRYNA SHUVALOVA is a scholar of culture, politics, and society in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. She is particularly interested in how political imaginaries are constructed through culture in the context of Russia's war on Ukraine. Shuvalova holds a PhD in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge scholar, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, where she was a Fulbright scholar. Her most recent scholarly publications in REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia and in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies explore identity narratives of the Russo-Ukrainian war through popular songs. Her current research examines how the symbolic space of ‘Russianness’ is being manufactured by the occupying regime in Ukraine's territories controlled by Russia.